Re: [Fsfe-uk] Draft PR on swpat directive

[Brian Gough]

Alex Hudson writes:
 > Hi everyone.
 > 
 > I think we're now roughly all up-to-speed with what happened at the
 > European Parliament last week wrt to swpat. If not, here are a few
 > useful links:
 > 

I sent a few suggestions directly to Alex.
 > 
 > The outline is basically aligned with that of the FFII, although
 > obviously we are only concerned with Free Software. There is one
 > amendment that I have neglected to mention directly, that was defeated:
 > the amendment that would have excluded Free Software from any kind of
 > patent infringement.

I agree that it's of no practical consequence any more so I would not
mention it.

 > Another piece of self-censorship (almost ;) is that I've deliberately
 > not made any statements about this being a turn-around of the directive,
 > or similar.

Very much agreed.